Godaddy survey answers (I stand corrected!)

Razer g2s at riseup.net
Wed Sep 13 20:13:00 PDT 2017


I stand corrected. I conflated GoDaddy's rationale with Cloudflare's CEO
statement:

> Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer.
> We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS
> requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they
> cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again.
>
> Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of
> our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making
> this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim
> that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.
>
> Our team has been thorough and have had thoughtful discussions for
> years about what the right policy was on censoring. Like a lot of
> people, we’ve felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but
> we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network. We
> could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support by
> Cloudflare. 

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/


...and I stand by what I said on another thread about an overweening
reason DNS's take an incredible risk hosting Sturmer crap:

> On 09/13/2017 12:07 PM, Marina Brown quoted Jim Bell:
>
> > Sorry, but you are not even hundreds of miles away from being correct on
> > this.  To label DNS service, which is essentially monopoly, as
> > supporting "genocide" is about 3-4 leaps of logic, far too much to
> work. 
> > A few nuts spouting nonsense is far, very far, from "conspiracy to
> > commit genocide".  Merely providing necessary net services to them, just
> > as is done for thousands of sites, cannot possibly be described that
> > way.
>
> Cmon Jim! You know better! That wing ding at the beginning of the
> Persian Gulf Invasion? An Annapolis Ham Packet bbs that handled an
> anti-war message? Remember?
>
> The first node IS responsible for content, barring federal
> intervention/regulation such as declaring a mode of operation or
> organization, a "Common Carrier". DNSes have NO SUCH IMMUNITY.
>
> Rr

On 09/12/2017 07:05 PM, Razer wrote:
>
> On 09/12/2017 02:54 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> Feel free to continue to be obtuse, 
> I'm not being obtuse. I'm cutting right to the chase.
>
> Rr



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